| A | B |
| glacier | thick sheets of ice |
| artifact | object made by humans |
| archaeology | study of evidence left by early people |
| culture | entire way of life developed by a people |
| adobe | sun-dried clay brick |
| pueblo | adobe houses of the Southwest |
| drought | long dry spell |
| Native Americans | first people to reach the Americas |
| Mound Builders | people who built earthen mounds lived in North America 3000 yrs ago until 1700's |
| Hohokam | lived in Arizona about 2000 years ago, dug irrigation ditches |
| Anasazi | "ancient alien ones" in the SW built irrigation canals |
| Berengia | land bridge between America and Asia |